The U.S. Senate is "moving towards" approving a bill that would protect the current Presidential Administration and the C.I.A from prosecution for "War Crimes".
This is deplorable, as the very people who have been elected by the citizens of our country to protect our freedom and liberty are taking steps to deny that very freedom and liberty to individuals. It is morally unconscionable in that it violates Articles Five through Twelve of the U.N. Declaration of Human Rights (as well as numerous articles in the Catechism of the Catholic Church).
Some may view this as being unimportant because it does not affect them. They claim that these oppressive measures only affect individauls who are guilty of terrorism or terroristic acts. It is important because how we treat those who are the “least” among us is representative of how just and merciful we really are as a nation. Our leaders can claim to be “compassionate” or “Christian”, but until they live out those values, they are but liars speaking empty words.
These matters are also important in that for the first time, world opinion sees the United States, a supposedly “free and democratic” country, as being worse than China - a communist, totalitarian state that repeatedly violates the human rights and civil rights of its citizens.
In the years since “The War on Terror” began, we have fallen from grace as a nation; we no longer represent the ideals of freedom, justice and liberty.
Let us not forget the words of the Prophet Isaiah.
1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and who write oppressive decrees,
2 Depriving the needy of judgement and robbing my people's poor of thier rights,
Making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey!
3 What will you do on the day of punishment, when ruin comes from afar?
To who will you plea for help? Where will you leave your wealth,
4 Lest it sink beneath the captive or fall beneath the slain?
For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!
Isaiah 10:1-5
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